Education as a foundation for opportunity
Every application form asks what you have learned and whether you can prove it. Education quietly decides how many lives a person is free to choose between.
The Journal Section
Education
Learning as a foundation for opportunity, at every age.
What studying law teaches everyone
The most useful things legal training gave me are habits of mind that would serve a nurse, a teacher or a parent just as well as a lawyer.
Across the Journal 14 essays
2026
- Afraid, and going anywayFaith & Purpose6 min
- The discipline behind meaningful progressPersonal Growth5 min
- On beginning againPersonal Growth5 min
- Why communities need builders, not just dreamersSociety & Community5 min
- Belonging is built, not foundSociety & Community5 min
- Ambition, responsibility and the courage to beginLife & Perspective5 min
- Two places at onceLife & Perspective5 min
- Mentorship and the shortened roadPersonal Growth5 min
- Education as a foundation for opportunityEducation5 min
- What studying law teaches everyoneEducation5 min
- What leaders owe the people who follow themLeadership5 min
- The decisions nobody seesLeadership5 min
- Reading slowly: notes on faith and attentionFaith & Purpose5 min
- Faith on a Monday morningFaith & Purpose5 min
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